Henry Walker

Use constructive and well-formed examples, like Quicksort, to teach recursion so that students have a strong model for building their own solutions.

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Promote useful and efficient code in order to encourage students to make better design choices and develop good style.

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Incorporate robotics into your class to increase students’ interest in computer science in order to motivate their learning.

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Include statements about accommodating students with disabilities in your syllabus and on your website to make it easily available.

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Explicitly discuss the lack of bounds-checking in C-based courses to avoid student confusion when using strings and arrays.

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Avoid recapping assigned reading to encourage students to complete the reading before class.

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Include on tests questions taken from earlier assignments and labs to mitigate the fact that you can’t grade every assignment.

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Misconception: In C-based languages, students don’t know when to use and not use pointer derefrences (*) and reference-operators (&).

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Help students identify strategies for splitting their attention between their code and their robots to help them monitor their code’s effects.

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Have students program a robot to play a song to engage novices.

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